7. Puritan Threat

Question 1

Puritans wanted to follow a …….

Answer 1

Simpler of purer form of worship

Question 2

Some puritans followed ideas of John Calvin and became known as …..

Answer 2

Calvinists

Question 3

They wanted to ……… (ie making the sign of …. , displaying …… , celebrating ……)

Answer 3

Rid the church of all Catholic beliefs and traditions
The cross
Ornaments or colourful paintings or windows
Saints days

Question 4

Puritans opposed the role of …… as …….. and the role of …….. as ………

Answer 4

The bishops
Leaders of the church

Elizabeth
Head of the church

Question 5

Believed that the church should be run by …….

Answer 5

Committees of elected men

Question 6

Believed people should live a ……. life and not do: ………

Answer 6

Simpler
Playing games or entertainment, gambling, visiting theatre, drunkenness, swearing, dancing on village green

Question 7

TYPES OF PURITANS
Moderate: ……
Presbyterian: ……
Separatists/Brownists: ….

Answer 7

Accepted the religious settlement but wanted more reform of the church

Did not accept the religious settlement and wanted more reform: came from Scotland

Radical group, wanted to break away from the church

Question 8

Vestments controversy in ……

Puritans ……….. for all priests to wear …..
….. priests dismissed in London
Elizabeth …….

Answer 8

1566
Rejected the order issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Matthew Parker)
Vestments
37
Insisted that all priests wore the vestments

Question 9

Proposals by Thomas Cartwright in …….
Series of lectures calling for the …….. including:
- abolition of …….
- each church ruled ……
- ministers ……

Answer 9

1570
Introduction of Puritan system of church
Post of Archbishop and bishops
Locally by one minister and elders
Elected by own church congregations

Question 10

French Marriage Pamphlet of John Stubbs in …….

Criticised Elizabeth for …….. called ……

Elizabeth had ……

Answer 10

1579
Engaging in marriage talks with a French Catholic
Duke of Anjou
Stubbs arrested

Question 11

Marprelate Tracts in ……

Anonymous …… which …….
Containing often ……… language
…… puritans support

Answer 11

1588-89
Pamphlets
Severely criticised the church and bishops
Sarcastic, offensive and violent
Lost

Question 12

Some puritans MPs ……

Never successful as ……:
WS …..
JF + TW ….
PW ….
PT ….
AC ….

Answer 12

Used their position to introduce bills which proposed further reform of the church

Elizabeth rejected all their bills

Walter Strickland 1571
John Field and Thomas Wilcox 1572
Peter Wentworth 1576
Peter Turner 1576
Anthony Cope 1586-87

Question 13

To deal with Prophesyings:
……. Ordered to ban prophesyings but …….. ; Elizabeth …….

Archbishop …… was …….., ordered the whole church to accept ……..

Answer 13

Archbishop Grindal
He did not see them as dangerous
Dismissed Grindal

Whitgift
Harsher on puritans
Bishops, the book of Common Prayer and the 39 Articles

Question 14

Radical puritans who went underground wanted to …….

Led by …….; when …….. others like HB, JG, JC, ET continued the movement

Answer 14

Establish independent church

Robert Browne
He was arrested and exiled
Henry Barrow
John Greenwood
John Copping
Elias Thacker

Question 15

Separatism was seen as ………
Elizabeth passed the ……….. in …….

Government could imprison and execute anyone associated with ……..

Answer 15

Treason but the government
Act against Seditious Sectaries
1593
radical Puritan beliefs